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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1910
Page
12
Elihu Root comments after elections that the public focuses on results rather than causes. He warns the administration may split, prompting a search for a Moses to guide them out of the wilderness. Roosevelt or more radical northern leaders could emerge as options.
New York voters may derail the GOP ticket after the Roosevelt impact, Senator Elihu Root warns. He urges party harmony to avert a calamity that could jeopardize Taft’s renomination, arguing Roosevelt’s force and integrity have advanced honesty and freedom in politics while the administration bears the brunt of defeat.
The passage argues Roosevelt strengthens party administration by backing Republican candidates beyond New York, aiding the Taft administration and supporting Taft’s renomination in 1912. It emphasizes Roosevelt’s influence in multiple states and the impact on party unity.
William Shellhouse, 45, of 64134 Washington Street, died in City hospital Saturday after a Tuesday night saloon fight on Washington Street. Coroner Blackwell ordered autopsy to determine if death stemmed from alcohol or head injury. Shellhouse claimed a frameup in a card game started the clash. Suspect Sandy Sutton admitted being in the saloon and later said he was robbed of $200. Sutton was released Saturday before Shellhouse died.
The article notes that after a White House conference with the president and Assistant Attorney General Kenyon, suits against the beef trust in Chicago will be heard for the first time next January. Defendants will move to quash indictments while the government readies a strong response to demurrers, signaling a forthcoming legal contest.
Infantile paralysis found in Montpelier Indiana. A 9 year old child of Mr and Mrs LeRoy Shadie is ill. Dr J N Hurty criticizes local parents for allowing children to visit the patient despite state board warnings. Information about the disease sent to the local public schools superintendent.
Crawfordsville Ind Oct 29 Herbert L Bass Co Indianapolis architects have been chosen to plan the Ben Hur skyscraper to be erected here. Seven Orms competed in the contest.
In Fairmount Pennsylvania on October 29 six prisoners escaped from a temporary jail by prying loose a window bar and crawling through. Two of the escapees are charged with murder. The incident marks the second jail delivery at Marion County Jail in six months.
Washington dispatch reports Chief Statistician Hunt of the census bureau and confidential clerk L. V. Beales travel to Tacoma to eliminate padded enumeration. Hunt is due to arrive Wednesday to conduct the enumeration.
In Chicago a St. Paul businessman elopes with Daisy Porter, 18, but after quarrels on the train and Daisy urging that he marry her mother, J L Rodney marries Mrs. R M Porter, completing a sensational sequence begun in St. Paul. The trio’s chaotic romance unfolds with the planned elopement dissolving and a surprising wedding to Daisy’s mother.
On October 29 Mrs. E H Harriman transferred 10 000 acres and 1 000 000 dollars to the Palisades interstate park commission. The Bear Mountain tract forms part of a Hudson River playground planned by New York leaders. At the same time 700 acres on Bear Mountain were ceded from a prison site to park use under a legislative act.
The state board of health approves Wright township trustee N. G. McIntosh's order ending the punishment of keeping pupils indoors during school hours. He argues fresh air aids health and punishing by confinement should cease. Dr Hurty says keeping in will be abolished if possible and urges alternative discipline.
A permit filed Saturday outlines a $450000 block building at Illinois and Market streets. William H. Block will construct an eight story concrete structure. permit fees cited include 41.65 dollars and a recent permit carried 806 dollars in fees.
August Brown, a Big Four brakeman from Lafayette, visiting at 710 English avenue, was drawn into a coin swindle in University Park. A man and Brown’s so called friend hoodwinked him, winning Brown’s cash then stealing his watch and diamond pin, with police leaning toward a deliberate frame up.
City health officer Dr Charles Woods has patrols out early morning and all day to curb public spitting on street cars and in public buildings. He plans arrests to end flooding floors with tobacco juice. Spitting in cold weather risks spreading germs carried by the wind.
Private detectives and the New York police hunt for jewelry valued at $20,000 stolen from the handbag of Mrs. George A. Huhn wife of a banker at the Belmont park aviation meeting in New York on October 29.
In Port Arthur on Oct 29, 5000 railway workers north of Lake Nipigon face starvation as the steamer Ombabika, the sole supply link, is wrecked. An earlier wrecked boat and ice access delays dictate a harsh winter while hopes rise for lake freezing to enable hauling supplies by teams.
A Cuban cablegram reports the liner Crown Prince wrecked off Hualandes point near Havana after a long overdue voyage. The vessel broke in two amidships with the stem shattered by heavy seas. the foreholds filled with water. The captain says all hands were saved.
Mrs O R Rash president of the Brightwood WCTU died Friday at 11 30 p m at Deaconess hospital after six weeks with typhoid fever. She is survived by her husband. WCTU members visited Beck Hurry undertaking and the body will be shipped to Fortville Indiana for burial.
A corset designed for comfort and freedom of movement with no side steels in sizes 18 to 24 and double side steels in sizes 25 to 30. It features two pairs of supporters and is priced at $1.80 per pair in coutil B-92, with every pair guaranteed.
The body of an unidentified man about 40 was recovered from the river below Niagara Falls on Saturday. He weighed 170 pounds and stood 5 feet 9 inches tall.
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